Money Is The Best Rule Of Commerce.

Without The Knowledge Of The True Number Of The People, As A Principle, The Whole Scope And Use Of Keeping Bills Of Birth And Burials Is Impaired; Wherefore By Laborious Conjectures And Calculations To Deduce The Number Of People From The Births And Burials, May Be Ingenious, But Very Preposterous.

The Method I Take To Do This Is Not Yet Very Usual; For Instead Of Using Only Comparative And Superlative Words, And Intellectual Arguments, I Have Taken The Course (as A Specimen Of The Political Arithmetic I Have Long Aimed At) To Express Myself In Terms Of Number, Weight, Or Measure; To Use Only Arguments Of Sense, And To Consider Only Such Causes, As Have Visible Foundations In Nature.

Wherefore The Race Being Not To The Swift, Etc. But Time And Chance Happening To All Men, I Leave The Judgement Of The Whole To The Candid, Of Whose Correction I Shall Never Be Impatient.

No Man Pays Double Or Twice For The Same Thing, Forasmuch As Nothing Can Be Spent But Once.

The Trade Of Banks Is The Buying And Selling Of Interest And Exchange.